It was a busy weekend, although we didn’t manage to go to the anti-war rally in DC. Unfortunately, it was scheduled for our practice time, and we hadn’t had a full practice since December, when our drummer left for Iowa to visit his family. Also, we’re going to the National Conference for Organized Resistance next weekend, so we had to practice sometime. That’s stupid, isn’t it?
I started work on my oil painting last night. I have no knowledge whatsoever about oil painting, but I’m managing through sheer bloody-mindedness, as usual. I think I was supposed to use some sort of thinner or oil or something to make the cheapy oil paints I was using more malleable, but that’s not how I like to do things. Instead, I took my brush and forced the paint all over the canvas (this work is primarily black), twirling it around and digging it in. Looking at the painting right now, it seems that the brush lost a lot of bristles all over the place. I’m not about to touch the paint again to remove them, as it took me a million smears to realize that oil paint adheres to everything. I guess I’ll call it “texture”. Some people think that kind of shit’s important.
I knocked myself out with that shit last night, so you'll have to forgive me if I'm a little incoherent today. However it was snowing this morning, so I was ten types of happy. It was those little picturesque individual flakes, too.
Aaron basically got fired from his job. He ended up owing the paper company $500 again, and I’m starting to doubt that he’s completely blame-free in this situation. I can’t imagine that it’s happened to him and only him twice, while there are deliverers who have been doing this for years and years.
The upshot of this is that he’s been looking for another job, and listed me as a reference. I know that I’m too nice for my own good, because I gave him a good reference, despite all the exciting thing’s I’ve experienced at his hands. I even said that he’s honest with money (though he owes me so very much of it). Anyway, it’s this thing called Primerica, and there’s a $200 startup fee, and it’s a little bit of a scam. Not a complete scam because I truly do believe that there are people who do well at it. I also believe that Aaron will not be one of those people. So, good luck to him, I say.
Dirk got a new program that can capture video from the dvd/vcr and convert it to any computer format you’d like. There are also other things you can do with it, but I’m saving that as a surprise for tomorrow. Seriously, we’re all jacked into the digital world and shit, with our camera, our scanner, our software, and our brainstuff. I couldn’t have envisioned the new millennium this well.
So, pictures tomorrow, as well as other surprises. Also, I may try for coherency, you just don't know!
